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Podcast: The Nice Cult Presents
Episode: Season 3 Episode 13 Cargo Cults
Description: The religious movements chiefly, but not solely, in Melanesia that exhibit belief in the imminence of a new age of blessing, to be initiated by the arrival of a special “cargo” of goods from supernatural sources. Listen to hear the Juicy Details. We add a new holiday to our cult. Don swears.
The Good:
Not warring tribes
Acceptable to view advanced technology as magic
The Bad:
Sugar introduced
Killed all livestock to appease that gods and get more cargo... with no success
The Culty (is there anything in this cult worth incorporating into our own...